more than three years ago -- is finally facing trial in the US.

And it has emerged that Squires could even be a multiple killer, with three possible murder victims, and could face the gas chamber.

Bermudian victim Lyndon Fubler, 27, survived but suffered permanent eyesight damage after being shot in the back of the head in November 1995. Los Angeles-born Squires, thought to belong to notorious LA gang The Crips, has now been extradited from North Carolina to Georgia for the trial.

The 23-year-old was on the run as a fugitive for two-and-a-half years but was finally arrested in North Carolina last July, suspected of shooting two men in a car.

Now he has been accused of a third gruesome murder in North Carolina and is in line for the death penalty.

Shooting suspect could face the death penalty But he will first be tried in Augusta, Georgia, where he allegedly shot Mr.

Fubler, who was living there as a college student.

Mr. Fubler, now rebuilding his life with a full-time job, told The Royal Gazette last night: "I never even knew the guy.

"I don't know what type of guy he is but he's obviously got some sort of a problem. I would just love to know why he did what he did to me.

"But I'm relieved that he's finally going to come to trial. He will pay the price for what he did and whatever happens now is not up to me.'' Mr. Fubler said he may never regain his full sight after losing peripheral vision in the shooting.

"My injuries are permanent,'' he added. "I'm going to suffer for the rest of my life and I have to deal with it regardless.'' Squires can expect a jail sentence of more than 50 years if convicted of shooting Mr. Fubler, his friend Sheila Kitchens and her 12-year-old brother George.

Twenty-year-old Daniel Downing, said to have been Squires' accomplice, is already serving 55 years for aggravated assault, burglary and possession of a weapon.

District Attorney Clark Everett, prosecuting the double murder case in Greenville, North Carolina, said Squires was extradited to Georgia last week for the Fubler trial.

A top-security prison van drove north from Georgia to collect him from the Pitt County Detention Centre.

And Mr. Everett said Police probing the double shooting in Greenville had been contacted by detectives in neighbouring Craven County, who want Squires on suspicion of yet another murder. "The extradition hearing has taken place and Squires has been cleared for extradition,'' said Mr. Everett.

"We notified Georgia on Thursday and they then came to get him from our detention centre.

"And recently we found out that Squires has been charged with another murder which had been unsolved for quite some time.'' Mr. Everett has already told The Royal Gazette that if Squires is found guilty of the Fubler shooting, he is more likely to face the death penalty if convicted of any of the murders.

The conviction in Georgia could be used as an "aggravating circumstance'', leaving Squires with the grim choice between a lethal injection and the gas chamber.

North Carolina is one of the frontline death-penalty states in the US, with more than 200 inmates on death row.

Mark Lorenzo Squires BERMUDIAN BDA